The present project concerns the Pahlavi (Middle Persian) exegesis of the Yasna of 72 chapters, the key Zoroastrian text composed in Avestan. Using a new approach, following recent findings on the ...

These diagrams show the usage statistics of Avestan as content language on the web. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Our reports are updated daily.

Avestan Ritual in India (AVINDIA) is a 5-year project which will film the performance of a Visperad ceremony in India and seek to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how the ritual is structured ...

Other Iranian languages of note are Old Persian and Avestan (the sacred language of the Zoroastrians for which texts exist from the 6th century BCE). West and East Iranian comprise the Iranian group ...

Around 1500, Indo-Aryan culture began to dominate the region. Indo-Aryan culture is associated with Sanskrit, a language related to Greek, Latin, and Avestan (the ancient language of Persia)--all are ...

Download the unicode-fonts.el file, and put it somewhere Emacs can find it, e.g. ~/.emacs.d/unicode-fonts. Remove Unifont from your system. Emacs maintains font mappings on a per-glyph basis, meaning ...

This journal utilises an Online Peer Review Service (OPRS) for submissions. By clicking "Continue" you will be taken to our partner site https://mc.manuscriptcentral ...

To use the generated data, simply install one of the npm modules generated by this script. Separate packages are available for each Unicode version. This allows you to do stuff like: ...

As far as breaking down the name is concerned, the Assyrian 'Amadai' may be closer to the original Indo-Iranian than the Greek 'Mede'. The best match would seem to be the Avestan root 'maid-', meaning ...

“Although I had never read Avestan, the ancient language in which the names [of Ahura Mazda] are written, I was determined to learn. Dr Er Rooyintan Peer, an inspiring figure in Avestan studies, ...